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Front Matter

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What Philosophers Are Saying About Free Will
Why The Free Will Scandal Should Matter To You
Title Pages
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Sidebars

Preface, xvii

1. Introduction, 1

How to Use this Book, 1; On Omniscience, Omnipotence, Benevolence, 5; About Information Philosophy and Physics, 8; Two Steps in Cosmic Information Creation, 12; Information and Predictability, 13

2. The Free Will Scandal, 14

A Knowledge Scandal, 15; A Moral Scandal?, 17

3. Freedom, 18

Hobart's Determination, 23

4. The Standard Argument Against Free Will, 26

Part One - The Determinism Objection, 28; Part Two - The Randomness Objection, 29; Examples of the Standard Argument, 30; What’s Wrong with the Standard Argument?, 46; The Standard Argument in Antiquity, 49; Summary, 53

5. Requirements for Libertarian Free Will, 54

Part One - The Randomness Requirement, 55; Part Two - The Determinism Requirement, 56; Part Three - The Responsibility Requirement, 56; Freedom, Will, and Moral Responsibility, 57

Quantum Physics, 225; Special Relativity and the Block Universe, 225; Nonlocality and Entanglement, 228; The Free Will Theorem, 230; The Free Will Axiom, 231; The Contribution of Quantum Mechanics, 232